Title 4 PUBLIC UTILITIES
Chapter 4.08 FLOOD DAMAGE PREVENTION
4.08.210 Standards for areas of shallow flooding (AO zones).
Located within the areas of special flood hazard established in Section
4.08.040, are areas designated as shallow flooding. The following provisions
shall apply within such areas:
(a) All new construction and substantial
improvements of residential structures shall have the lowest floor elevated to
the depth number specified on the flood insurance rate map, in feet, above the
highest adjacent grade. If no depth number is specified, the lowest floor shall
be elevated at least three feet above the highest adjacent grade.
(b) All
new construction and substantial improvements of nonresidential structures
shall:
(1) Have the lowest floor elevated to the depth number specified on
the flood insurance rate map, in feet, above the highest adjacent grade. If no
depth number is specified, the lowest floor shall be elevated at least three
feet above the highest adjacent grade; or
(2) Be completely floodproofed
together with attendant utility and sanitary facilities to or above that level
so that any space below that level is watertight with walls substantially
impermeable to the passage of water and with structural components having the
capability of resisting hydrostatic and hydrodynamic loads and effects of
buoyancy. (Ord. O-13-06 (part), 2006)
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